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title: «Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.» Can plates rea… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.» Can plates really grin? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (t…

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«Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.» Can plates really grin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Plates · **What happens:** grin · **To what, where:** pots

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t7:1
# text = «Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dresser	dresser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	grinned	grin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** *in a quote* | past | Plates on the dresser |  |  | pots |  | on the shelf | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* Can plates really grin?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t7:2
# text = Can plates really grin?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grin	grin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | can | plates |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, they are very happy plates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t7:o1:1
# text = Yes, they are very happy plates
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | happy plates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, they only sparkle in lamplight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t7:o2:1
# text = No, they only sparkle in lamplight
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sparkle	sparkle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lamplight	lamplight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sparkle** | present | they |  |  | lamplight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lamplight=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No — the whole room just looks cheerful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t7:o3:1
# text = No — the whole room just looks cheerful
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | no whole room |  |  |  |  | cheerful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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